The Key To Unlocking Profitability and Growth in SaaS with Expensify’s COO Anu Muralidharan
How do you build a successful, high-growth company that is also profitable? Expensify’s COO, Anu Muralidharan, debunks the fallacy that profitability comes at the expense of growth.
Dear SaaStr: How Do Founder CEOs Typically Transition Out of the Role?
Dear SaaStr: How Do Founder CEOs Typically Transition Out of the Role? It’s a complicated question. Most founders that voluntarily step down tend to want to remain involved at some level, often as “Executive Chairman”. And the VCs and investors often like this. The...
The Founder Playbook with Loom’s CEO & Co-Founder, Joe Thomas (Pod 669 + Video)
With Loom announcing its almost $1B acquisition by Atlassian, we thought it would be a great time to dig back on CEO Joe Thomas’s presentation at SaaStr Europa in June on how they got there. Joe Thomas, CEO & Co-founder of Loom, shared 5 hard-earned lessons...
Dear SaaStr: What Is “Uncalled Capital” in a VC Fund?
Dear SaaStr: What Is “Uncalled Capital” in a VC Fund? This is worth understanding as a founder. In any venture fund of a material size (even just $50m+), the vast majority of the fund is not used for initial checks into startups. Yes, that’s right. ...
Scaling Beyond Founder-Led Sales with Atomico Partner Laura Connell
Discover what it takes to scale beyond founder-led sales on your path to Series B with Atomico Partner Laura Connell.
The 7 Best Pieces of Career Advice I Was Given
I’m not sure I’m a great giver of golden advice, but here’s my list of the best golden advice I’ve been given over the years. And the advice holds as well today as when it was given: Manage People — In General, and Earlier. The earlier in your career you can learn how...
2024 SaaS Landscape: Why 2024 Could be Pretty Darn Good for SaaS IPOs with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Video + Podcast)
SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin deep dives into the current state of SaaS and the Cloud and what to expect over the next year.
Dear SaaStr: We Don’t Need It. Should We Still Go After Venture Capital, and When?
Dear SaaStr: We Don’t Need It. Should We Go After Venture Capital, and When? Raise venture capital if you can commit to years of insane growth Don't if you can't — Jason ✨????????SaaStr LDN June 4-5✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) April 30, 2024 There are only...
From $5M to $100M: How to Scale a Multi-Product Startup with Lattice CEO Jack Altman (Video + Podcast)
The secret to success for a lot of SaaS companies is going multi-product. Jack Altman, CEO of Lattice, shares how to scale a multi-product startup.
What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich
In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion.
Hiring Your VPs: When Can You Compromise? (UPDATED)
Sometimes, you just have to lower the bar to get a hire done You've just run out of time, and you can't find someone great Only thing is I've never seen a single one of those hires work out — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) September 19, 2023 I...
State of the Cloud 2023 with Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Podcast)
Bessemer Venture Partners share their annual State of the Cloud report, including a look back at the past year, current trends and benchmarks, plus tactics to improve efficiency and innovation.
Building a Global SaaS Empire: 5 Bets That Paid Off with Freshworks Founder & CEO Girish Mathrubootham (Video + Pod)
Freshworks is a successful public SaaS company that has a humble beginning in the small town of Chennai, India. Founder and CEO Girish Mathrubootham shares five big bets that paid off as he scaled this multi-product company.
The Top 10 Mistakes First Time B2B Founders Make (Updated)
When you’re about to hire someone with an amazing logo on their LinkedIn, That worked somewhere so amazing, so great, so similar to what you want to become Just ask yourself: -> Would we still hire them without that logo? If not, do not make hire And … you gotta be...
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